Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-28


such disturbances. Then came local finan-
cial shocks (not failures), accompanied by
by great depression in the cattle inter-
ests and the ever-to- aforementioned small
pox quarantine of Dallas against its
"sister CITY," These misfortunes we're
followed by the strike of 1886, which re-
suited in great hurt to this city, the rail-
road center Of North Texas, and by a
bitter partisan contest in which unscrupu-
lous men arrayed town and country in
hostility, and by crop failure in the
west, which section is more intimately
connected in trade relations with Fort
Worth than with I'll the other cities of
Texas combined. Only the wonderful
vitality and marvellous pluck Of Fort
Worth could have stood up against such
combination of misfortunes, beginning
with the Investment Company failure OF
1884, and extending through 1885 into
1856, and including, in addition to strikes
and guarantees, dire disaster to both the
live stock ard farming interests OF the
west. which is, in trade, bound in closest
unity with this city. =
For none of these misfortunes9Nas Fort
Worth responsible, aud despite tbess
all, what has the city done in the tine
mentioned? The record of it's achieve
ments during the period named Is the
best guarantee of that boom which Is COM
ing on TO surprise its own people with
force unequaled by any progress made
by any city in the state. II Fort Worth
has done so much despite disasters, what
will it not do when its own magnificent
pluck is supplemented by revival of the
cattle interests and by bountiful western
harvests, and h. avy immigration into
thst section which contains the public
lands and which is tributary to this city?
And what has Fort Worth done in this
time, so laden with misfortunes beyond
its control?
In 1886, Fort Worth put more money
whose paper would now disturb our Sc
rene self satisfaction;
In 1886, the merchants of Fort Worth
sold more goods than they did
in 1885, and there was not a failure of
sufficient prominence to be now recalled;
In 1856 there was more money in Fort
Worth banks than in 1885, and more to-
day than there was year ago;
Since the beginning of the untoward
eve"ts enumerated, Fort Worth has given
nearly $780, to new railroads;
Within the past yesr Fort Worth has
gained railroad connection with the
southeas' by the Fort Worth and New
Orleans Houston and Texas Central
roads;
1t has gained direct connection with
by the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe;
1t is putting steel rails on the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande to the southwest;
1t is pushing, over the the Fort Worth
and Denver, as rapidly as man and
money can accomplish the work into
the Panhandle, a section that is richer in
possibilities than any other in the state,
and one bound 10 Fort Worth By recipro-
cal interests;
1t is locating line into the northwest,
and by May will nave direct rail ccnnec-
ton with Kansas City;
There never was made by any city such
progress IN the face of such adverse con-
iitions, and the serenity Of this place
cannot be disturbed. These conditions
must change, and when they do, and
come to supplement the splendid pluck
Of Fort Worth the Times Will see boom
that will sppall it into silence and res
pect and yeerning desire to own Fort
Worth real estate.